Excursions in Chinese Culture:Festschrift in Honor of William R. Schultz

　　This volume of essays honors William R. Schultz, a leading figure in Chinese studies and a revered teacher. For many years Professor of East Asian Studies at the University of Arizona, Schultz is an authority on Lu Hsun and modern Chinese literature, an editor of thirty-four scholarly books on Chinese literature, including Waiting for the Unicorn: Poems and Lyrics of China^s Last Dynasty, 1644-1911 (with Irving Yucheng Lo, 1986), which is the first comprehensive survey of Ch^ing dynasty poetry in English. Covering diverse aspects of Chinese literature, history and culture, the ten articles in this volume are by William Schultz^s students, colleagues and friends who salute him as a model of the scholarly and academic ideal.